The pirate would probably have to own the sector for this though You mean like 'having a high standing within a piracy-heavy faction that is influential in the sector'? "This ship is under my protection, nobody in this faction should shoot at it". There'd probably be some aspect of having to share ...

this would force you hunt down that pirate and kill him to save face? Sure, why not? Also, it's a protection racket, so "the pirate" would actually become an escort to the victim's ship (just as far as their destination). If they are attacked by a second fleet of pirates then the first fleet is imm...

I suppose there are plenty of ways (from the victim's perspective): If the pirates are small-time and are flying in a formation of nothing but fighter-class ships then they don't have the cargo hold space to keep all of your cargo if they destroy you. In that case, making them an offer of some strai...

DWMagus, there is another aspect that I had in-mind, which may or may not matter to the fun level of the game: If there is no "pay up or else" aspect to the game then pirates are committed to having to completely destroy their victims in order to make any gains from piracy. This has the knock-on tha...

You kind of blur the lines there between 'a battle' and 'a conflict' (in the sense of "you won the battle but not the war"). A single battle/engagement - I think the absolute longest I would ever like to see that run on for in exceptional circumstances is 2 hours. In reality I think that 40 mins is ...

(Oops, this turned into a Wall of Text™ - the TL;DR version is "go read the yellow-highlighted parts!) Mrhm, dunno if I like the idea of that either. Not only is it micromanagement, it's also boring and would be limited in scope; Josh is making a game and as a game it should be fun. Now, whilst I a...

Assuming they are capable, they [the bandit] will shoot until it's disabled. Remember that most players will treat this scenario in exactly the same way they would treat "being destroyed and dying". Anybody but a 'hardcore mode' player would just quit the game and load from a save point. The enemy ...

What are the rules regarding profanity on this forum? All of this talk of "Th****ing" and "L***s" - don't you know that those are bad words? Multithreaded codebases are the road to hell. I say that even as someone who develops in a beautiful managed environment such as .NET/C#. I'm SO very glad that...

I totally approve of boarding parties as long as there is music, decorations and cake! That aside, yeah, watering down the time spent on the main game by implementing any kind of "boarding" feature would be silly IMO. Since a lot of what happens in the game is going to be about NPC attitudes to the...

Over here I don't think morning-versus-night makes much particular overall difference, as long as you set up a routine and then stick to it. I am personally a nighttime person, I suppose in part because of all of the time I spend in dance clubs that don't close 'till 6am. I set my 'target start time...

I'd refer you to this thread where it's already been suggested.

Also, nomination to lock this dupe thread?

Well, in the framework of a game, I see the "classic death with unlimited reload-from-save" scenario as the one containing no moral hazard. No matter what happens, you can always drop back to a previous save-game and go again as if nothing happened. With a continuous-save/continuous-campaign model, ...

Er, where'd the OP go? It has vanished, like an old oak table. (and before you mention the search feature, it refuses to search for "suggestions about suggestions" because it uses nothing but common words) Edit: Nevermind - I see you appended it to the common suggestions & FAQ thread . IMO that's a ...

DINGDONG! DINGDONG-DINGDONG! RAT-A-TAT-A-TAT! IMO this is the point where you should have pressed 'Pause'. If there's an insurance on your ships, you wouldn't lose them. … Your insurance rates would go up, no doubt, but no time wasted. To me that concept of an insurance premium is really just anoth...

I was reading this thread from the General forum and I realised it has an implication from the point-of-view of the RTS-style player. I was about to just reply to that thread when I realised I was really posting a suggestion. It also impacts some of the things mentioned in the limited fuel/resources...